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RuBisCO

RuBisCO is how plants take carbon out of the air to build sugar. It is part of the engine of photosynthesis.

RuBisCO: its AlphaFold model, drawn in one colour
Picture, in one colour: AlphaFold DB model v6 for UniProt P00875, from Fold Commons' snapshot of 2026-10-22. A prediction, not an experiment.

See it in 3D

Fun fact

It is the most common protein on Earth by total mass.

Words to know

NGSS alignment

Structure

Rendered in FoldLens Junior from AlphaFold Database entry P00875. See the underlying prediction at alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/entry/P00875.

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